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We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.
It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.
There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.
Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.
Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.
Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.
The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.
Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.
Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.
The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past
Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.
The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.
The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.
Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.
There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.
Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.
Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.
The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.
Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
We fritter away our energy and creativity . . . we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.
Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.
Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.
A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.
Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.
Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.
Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?
If the work is high and far, You must not only aim aright, But draw the bow with all your might.
Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!